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The League of Moveable Type (Changelog Interviews #74)

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Adam and Wynn caught up with Micah Rich from The League of Moveable type to talk about open source typography.

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Featuring:

  • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
  • Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

  • Micah Rich, from The League of Movable Type.
  • Caroline Hadilaksono, co-founder of The League.
  • League Gothic, one of Caroline’s popular faces is Wynn’s favorite.
  • Several of League fonts are available on TypeKit.
  • Dave Crossland, designer of Cantarell.
  • Chunk was created by Meredith Mandel.
  • The League fonts are forkable on GitHub.
  • FontForge is an outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, and more.
  • Glyphs is a professional font editor for Mac OS X.
  • Wynn’s slide decks make use of League Gothic and Hand of Sean.
  • Lettering.js gives you more control over kerning on the web.
  • The Manifesto lays out the vision for The League.
  • Haley Fiege contributed Sniglet.
  • Barry Schwartz has contributed several fonts.
  • Want to help Micah introduce typographers to git? Get in touch.
  • Wynn asks about vertical rhythm, which Compass makes easier.
  • Lettercase is a social font manager.
  • Adam uses FontExplorer X but wishes it did more.
  • Micah on Dribbble.
  • Lettercase is powered by Sinatra, Warden, and Grape.
  • Hoefler & Co. are Micah’s heroes in typography design.

    • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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